Stew-pan



m W w S MW d a M o W No. 241,658. Patented May 17,1881.

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WITNESSES i UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE HIL L, OF WHITE HALL, ILLINOIS.

STEW-PAN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 241,658, dated May 17, 1881.

Application filed October 27, 1880.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known thatI, GEORGE HILL,of White Hall, Greene county, Illinois, haveinvented a new and Improved Stew-Pan,of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide a new. and improved stew-pan which is simple in construction, can stand very intense heat without breaking, has a support that admirsot' a circulation of air under the vessel, and has ears for fastening the bail, which ears are so constructed that they are protected and cannot be broken 0e by slight jars or shocks, as is theease with the ears of the ordinary earthenware pan heretofore made.

made, and has a hemisphericalor similar shape.

Three or more segmental ridges,B B, forming a raised circle with three or more breaks, are provided on the under side of the pan, and thus form the support for the same. The air can (No model.)

freely circulate between the under side of the pan Aand the upper surface of the stove-plate bypassing through the spaces between the adjoining ends of the segmental ridges B, and thus prevent the bottom of the vessel from be ing cracked by overheating. A band or ring, 0, is formed around the upper edge of the pan, on the outer side, and the ears D D, to which the bail G G is fastened, are made integral with this band or ring 0. These ears D D eonsist of a projection of the full height of the b and or ring (3, and this projection is gradually rounded toward theloweredge ofthis ring or ban (1 O. The car or projection D is provided with two side wings, E E, at its lower end, whereby the base or bearing of the earsis greatlyincreasethand at the same time these wings serve to protect the ears from being broken off, as the objects that would strike the unprotected ear generally glance 011' from the wings;

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent-.-

In a stew-pan, the bail-ears D, provided with side wings or guards, E, but without stops, to lessen their liability of being broken on", as described.

GEORGE HILL. Witnesses:

LYMAN T. PRINDLE, EDWARD RIX. 

